Thread: Inde-fence-ible?

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Inde-fence-ible?
By Wayne A. Cornelius
Wayne A. Cornelius is a distinguished professor of political science and director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UC San Diego.

November 13, 2005

WHILE President Bush was in Latin America earlier this month, cajoling governments to support a free-trade zone, some members of his party back home were pushing for a fence from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico to keep Latin Americans out of the United States.

Colorado Gov. Bill Owens, Rep. Duncan Hunter of El Cajon and other Republicans have proposed building such a barrier. Hunter's version, centerpiece of the TRUE Enforcement and Border Security Act that he introduced last week, would include two layers of reinforced fencing, stadium-type lighting, access roads, video surveillance systems and in-ground sensors. To monitor and maintain these new fortifications, Hunter would double the size of the Border Patrol.

Sealing the border is technologically feasible â€â€

We have way too many legal entry opportunities now as it is. Any nation's immigration policies are supposed to be for the primary benefit of it's citizens not it's immigrants. If we leave the door open then people will keep coming until they no longer see quality of life being better here than there...and there is every poor country in the world.

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But my interviews with hundreds of recently returned migrants show that the vast majority already knew about the difficulty and dangers of entering the U.S. clandestinely. This knowledge didn't discourage them from trying

NOW. I WONDER WHOSE FAULT THAT IS

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It's time for the Bush administration to pound the stake into this wrongheaded scheme before it does lasting damage

God, what a moron of a professor. Is this fruitcake saying that the American people should not be allowed to demand to have immigration laws enforced ? There should be some sort of mental test given to people who want to teach at our colleges and universities.